Study for 'Solitude': Female Figure with Draped Seat

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Solitude': Female Figure with Draped Seat
Date: c.1890
Media: Black and white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: 36.8 x 28.6 cm
Location: Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven
Picture credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Reference number: B1985.5
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "Solitude"in pencil.

Description

Study for the female figure and draped seat in the painting 'Solitude' (c.1890, Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts, Washington). This study is very similar to the final painting although the figure's head is inclined slightly to the left and the drapery covering the seat is fuller. 

Provenance

Collection of Mrs Aubrey Herbert [or possibly Evelyn Waugh (writer, 1903-1966)]; by descent to Maria Teresa D'Arms (nTe Waugh), (b.1938): lived at Ann Arbor, Michigan and London) until February 1985; acquired from Maria Teresa D'Arms by the Yale Centre of British Art, New Haven in 1985 

Bibliography

• Cormack, Malcolm, Friedman, Joan M., Noon, Patrick, Robinson, Duncan, 'Acquisitions: The First Decade 1977-1986', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, 1986, catalogue number 99
• Rhys, Ernest, 'Frederic Lord Leighton: Late President of the Royal Academy of Arts, An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work', George Bell and Sons, London, 1900, illustrated opposite p.58 

Exhibition history

• 19 November 1986 to 25 January 1987, 'Acquisitions: The First Decade 1977-1986', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, catalogue number 99